The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe. was
sold yesterday for 1852, 500. 1t was bought by
Mrs. Phoebus.
J. H. Raffen. who was shot, at Petersburg.
Va, by ex-Minister Langston's son, died on
Wednesday. Langston will be tried for murder
in the first degree. which is in Virginia, capital
offense.
Early yesterday morning, Peter Murray and
Daniel Afford. two laborers, who were at work
on new building at No. Al Broadway, New
York, fell from the seventh story to the ground
and were killed instantly.
Ed Short and Pat Cremins, two teamsters. got
into a row. Wednesday night at ST. Loui s.
about the right of way, and Short broke CIR g.
mins's skull with q wagon stake. Cremins died
last night and Short has been arrested.
Policeman Charles Jones, of Pittsburg, who
shot and killed his wife at an Italian ball, re-
Gently, was conviete: Yesterday of voluntary
manslauehter. the peralty is fine and twelve
years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
In Allegheny City, Wednesday evening. while
shooting with q Flobert rife, Albert Freisel,
aged nine years. was shot and instantly killed
by his playmate. Florence Parke, aged fourteen.
Parke is held, pending the result of the inquest.
A man gave himself up to the Brooklyn police
just before noon yesterday on his own state
ment that he was the murderer of the unknown
dead girl at Railway. The mans name Is j. j.
Flath. He is barber and q stranger in Brook
Ign.
Two printers, residents of East Brookfeld,
inosS.s WHtc WdhiuE vi q IoHTOou ucdr tacr0s
yesterday, were struck by q train. Frank Nc
Cotter was killed instantly. He leaves widow
and five children. David Gillespie. single, was
severely injured.
W. Morrison, of Chicago, who was one Of the
Rogers's crew in the Inflated Jeanette expedi-
tion was accidentally killed yesterday morning
near Valeria, Ia He had been duck hunting on
Wednesday, and starting out again yesterday,
his gun was discharged, the contents entering
the left side. He died in half an hour
continue to come in from the cotton and cattle
districts OF southwest Texas. A letter pub
lished in the San Antonio Times from the post
master at Rossvile, represents the condition in
his neighborhood as truly distressing, and calls
upon the business men of San Antonio for
relief.
During the progress of silver wedding cele-
bration. on Tuesday night. az st. Edwards, Neb.
Warren Long, prominent farmer, was shot and
killed by Edward Carr, who had been drunk and
quarrelsome during the evening, and had been
kicked out of the hotel Carr was captured, and
claims that he was drunk that he remembers
nothing Of the murder.
Mrs. Dr. Mailer, of Macon, No.. was burned to
death yesterday morning. She was in the
kitchen making cup of tea, when her dress
caught 6re, and there being one in the house,
her cries for assistance were not heard in time
to save her. Mrs Mailer was q prominent So
ciety lady of Atlanta, Mo. She was visiting at
Macon at the time of this misfortune.
Smith R. Bagg, assistan secretary of the De-
| troit police commission and a son of prominen,
citizen, shot himself in the head last night and
| will die from the wound. He contracted an uu-
| fortunate laison recently with fallen woman
| and when she was driven from the town he de
| camped and followed her to Buffalo His father
| settled the affair, but the woman threw him
| over, and since then he has been Respondent and
morose
On Wednesday, Mrs. Hamm Briggs cut hel
throat at the residence Of her husband, ten miles
from Wheeling w. Va, and, to all appear
ances, died almost instantly. The physicians
| said her jugular vein and windpipe were sew
cred, and the county coroner issued burial Ger
tificate. Last evening, as the body was being
| prepared for the coffin, the woman showed sign
| of life. She opened her eyes and called for bel
| husband. She is alive and conscious now
though it is not believed she can recover.